| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Treasure hunt | |||||||
| Air date | April 27, 1970 | ||||||
| Season | Season 1 (1969-1970) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Bob compliments Cedric on his bicycle and tells Troy that they're going to have a treasure hunt today. He gives Cedric a push on his bike as if blasting off a rocket so that he can go buy some jellybeans at Hooper's Store. |
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Film | Different kinds of wheels are shown and what they’re used for. (First: Episode 0013) |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar introduces a film about his favorite animals, but Susan informs him that it's Silly Song Time now, so he'll have to wait until after the song, even though he'd rather do it before the song. |
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Muppets / Cast | The Anything Muppets sing "Before and After." In between the verses, we see Buddy figuring out how to eat his slice of cake, aided by an unseen voice (Frank Oz). Eventually, he's left to his own devices and causes a mess when he tries to eat his cake before he opens his mouth. (First: Episode 0047) |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
After the silly song, Oscar introduces a film about his favorite animals: pigs. |
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Film | Kids narrate a film in three acts. In the first, the kids are painting pigs in a classroom. Live pigs are then shown nursing in a pig pen, followed by the pigs and the kids running around in a field together. |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Musical Banana — Gordon plays a musical trick on Ernie and Cookie Monster with a banana. (First: Episode 0016) |
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Cartoon | A boy's jump rope rhyme identifies the parts of his body that hurt - "otherwise I feel fine!" (First: Episode 0003) |
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SCENE 3 | Susan, Brynne, Paul, and Nina look up and see Alphabet Bates skywrite the letter D (First: Episode 0016). |
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Cartoon | "The D Commercial": Two boys notice a D, saying it looks fat. A resonant voice (Gary Owens) informs them that it's the letter D. This leads to a jazzy story about a dog who digs for dice, wins a duck, and buys a dinosaur with a dime. Moral: "If you dig a dinosaur, drop your duck for a dime." Studio: Ken Snyder; Director: Fred Calvert (First: Episode 0016) |
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Muppets | Bob reads the story of "The Diamond D and the Dangerous Dragon" acted out by the Anything Muppets. (First: Episode 0025) |
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Cartoon | A small man and his assistant, Dudley, attempt to demonstrate both the capital and lower-case letter D. (First: Episode 0016) |
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SCENE 4 | Gordon shows the kids the difference between the capital and lowercase D. |
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Cartoon | D for Dog: the roles between dog and master are reversed. (First: Episode 0016) |
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SCENE 5 | Susan plants some seeds for a new plant and wonders out loud how it would look if plants grew fast. |
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Film | Three clay seedlings grow into three flowers. |
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SCENE 6 | At the Pet Shop, Bob and the kids observe a fox cub. They comment on the winter fur it's starting to shed, and the different colors that makes up its fur. |
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Cartoon | "Poverty X": A peanut-shaped figure lists the words that the letter "X" can be found in. (First: Episode 0006) |
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SCENE 7 | Big Bird joins Gordon, Bob, and the kids in their treasure hunt. Gordon explains that it involves rhymes, and first they have to go one step up from the bottom of … somewhere that rhymes with "chairs." Big Bird makes some wrong guesses, and the kids get the answer right: the stairs. Big Bird is still good at counting to one. |
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Film | "One Song (Song of One)" (First: Episode 0086) |
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SCENE 8 | The next clue rhymes with "said." It's at the playground fence, at the height of Gordon's … head. |
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Film | "Head To Toe Puzzle": Two kids put together a life size jigsaw puzzle of a human body. (First: Episode 0024) |
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SCENE 9 | The last clue rhymes with "more." They find the treasure at Hooper's Store: ice cream cones! |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Cleans Up Part 1 — Bert demands that Ernie cleans up, or he's moving out. (First: Episode 0010) |
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Song | "Octopus One-Man Band" (First: Episode 0004) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Cleans Up Part 2 — Ernie has made the place spotless, as promised, but he still has his toybox to go through. (First: Episode 0010) |
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Cartoon | "Poverty X" (repeat) |
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SCENE 10 | Mr. Hooper observes the difference between the capital and lowercase X, and Bob does the same thing with D. |
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Cartoon | D for Dog (repeat) |
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Cartoon | A small man and his assistant, Dudley, attempt to demonstrate both the capital and lower-case letter D. (repeat) |
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Muppets | Wendy's mom sends her to pick up some groceries, but she gets distracted by worms and butterflies, so she can't remember what to get by the time she gets to the grocer. Her mom tells her to think of apples when she sees worms and potato chips when she sees butterflies, and she manages to complete her task. |
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SCENE 11 | Gordon and the kids observe a horned owl, talking about its long tufts of feathers and when it likes to stay up: either at dusk or dawn... |
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Muppets | Bob sings "Good Morning Starshine" with a group of hippie Anything Muppets. (First: Episode 0003) |
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SCENE 12 | Gordon and the kids sign off with the owl while Susan announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bob and Mr. Hooper hold up the Sesame Street sign, while Gordon and Susan hold up the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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